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@GA Russell That If set is great. I also own the Rollins set and glad to have it. Own most of the material on the Charles and Lewis sets in other configurations. Happy listening!

Much better than I expected!

I just got it from Face Records and played it on Saturday!

I best like the early 70's albums where he splits the difference between rock and jazz - Offering, Fairyland, and Barefoot Boy. The earlier stuff was at times gripping, but inconsistent. Eleventh House era seemed like a crass sellout, and his latter albums usually put me to sleep. Hated his thin tone on the Muse albums.

Great Concert of... is wonderful, the first full Mingus I ever heard (it was in my college's library browser rack). First Mingus cut I ever heard was "Hora Decubitas" from the wonderful 'Impulse Energy Essentials' sampler collection, which opened so many pathways for me when I picked it up as a brand new jazz convert.

I (Eagles fan) did!

Yes, a blessed Christmas to all. Very thankful for this community!

Agreed. To my ears, they had figured out optimal digital remastering by the late 90's, so any remaster from then or later generally suffices for me. I will sometimes upgrade for packaging or bonus tracks.

Alexander is my favorite jazz player who started after the 70's. Harold Mabern shines on this (no surprise)

Neither is almost everything else everyone's ever recorded. 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady' is a desert island disc for me.

Depends. Martyn's 'Bless The Weather'/'Solid Air'/'Inside Out'/'Sundays Child'/'Live at Leeds' era was amazing, and the earlier folky stuff was excellent, but to me he then artistically fell off a cliff with 'One World' and never recovered, even though he kept cranking out album after album.

He's a great guitar player, and she's an incredible songwriter. Saw them with Emmylou Harris, and have many of their CD's.

Nope,even more obscure!

Two concerns holding me back from jumping on the CD set yet (though I may well get there soon enough). First is sound quality questions (i.e. " The audio was restored from decades old cassette tapes which have never been heard until now.") - I don't see any audio samples on the site. Second is like half the set being taken up with 'Bye Bye Blackbird', 'St. Thomas', and 'Just The Way You Are', though the other selections look great.

Great news, cant wait!

I love 'Stand Up' and 'Benefit' and the stray early cuts which made it onto 'Living In The Past'. I like 'This Was', 'Aqualung' and 'Thick As A Brick' quite a bit. It gets spotty for me after that. And I quite enjoy the Blodwyn Pig albums with Mick Abrahams.

Thanks, I picked up 'Aqualung' , 'Thick as a Brick', 'Songs From The Wood' and 'Minstrel in the Gallery' in the past few days, noticed the prices were back to normal on them!

+ 1 on both counts, thanks

I was huge on them from 'This Was' to 'Thick As A Brick'. 'Passion Play' was lost on me, though I should go back and listen to it. These 40th Anniversary sets are beautiful, wish I had picked up on 'Stand Up - The Elevated Edition' when it was affordable.

I had the Tull and Allman Bros. back in the day also, even on short available discretionary $ as a 16 year old teenager. Didn't get the Dead album for many years (CD era), so missed out on the magnificent "The Other One" back in the day!

+1. I got a used copy of it in the past six months and really liked it.